Mike Pearse

Mike helps clients navigate testing situations through his extensive experience and contacts developed from over thirty years working in private consulting and broadcast journalism at ITV and BBC News.

Mike is one of the most experienced journalists in the country and a former Broadcast Journalist of the Year. During a hugely successful career he has reported on an enormous variety of stories for ITV and BBC News, ranging from every general election since the 1980s to major accidents such as the Concorde tragedy, even managing to make frontpage news himself on every national newspaper when he exposed UK airport security measures after 9/11. Most recently he produced a landmark network ITV documentary analysing how ITV covered Coronavirus.

Mike advises Alder clients on transport incidents, industrial accidents and media engagement.